A Sample Project Proposal on Promoting Rights and Access to Education and Health Services by the Nomadic Bede Community
Bangladesh has a
long and entwined relationship with its nomadic people who are popularly known
as the Bede Community. For decades, the Bedes’ are engaged in catching and
selling snakes, treating patients bitten by snakes, providing traditional
medical services, selling bangle ribbon sand various types of small jewelries,
performing magic or palmistry, showing monkey game, and so on as their
livelihood strategies. The Bedes’ have their own ethnic culture which is
disparate from other ethnic groups. The Bede community carries stigma as a Bede
and are often labeled as “dirty,” “uncivilized,” “uneducated,” “rude,” and “aggressive”.
The discrimination of the Bedes’ is obvious, almost palpable and discrimination
and marginalization are the most important impediments in the development of
the community. They remain extremely vulnerable within their own countries,
where their human rights and their social, political and economic equality have
been either denied or seriously undermined. Extreme poverty is higher in the
Bede community which is compounded by other factors such as significantly
higher illiteracy rates, unemployment, lack or absence of social services, and
human rights violations. The Bede community found it increasingly difficult to
meet their basic requirements of shelter, security and livelihood and most of them
found it extremely difficult to gain the acceptance of the societies they have
chosen to settle down with. Because of their nomadic pattern of life, still
they do not access to educational facilities, medical care facilities,
purifying water, sanitation facilities, and solid waste management facilities.
They are still driven by the hereditary customs and traditions which escalates
the rate of early marriage, gender-based inequalities, curtail women’s property
rights, accessing quality health care, and so on. Moreover, almost all the Bede
women not only face discrimination from outsiders of their community, but they
also occupy a marginal position within their own community. Furthermore, it is
presumed that the nomadic Bede community is reluctant to seek help for health
issues, which plays a significant role in their lack of access to health care. In
order to mitigate their marginalized or vulnerable conditions XYZ is interested
launch a project under the title “Promoting Rights and Access to Health
Services by the Nomadic Bede Community” (Maksud, 2009)
Rationale
Nomadic
Bede community has a different culture than the other ethnic groups in
Bangladesh. So the cultural diversity is the prime constituent of the nomadic
Bedes’ identity in Bangladesh. The diversity of cultural realities of the
nomadic Bedes was never taken into consideration in development strategies in
Bangladesh though UNESCO Declaration on Cultural Diversity proclaims that
“Cultural diversity is one of the driving forces of development” ( UNESCO
,2002)
The Goal and or Purposes of the Project
Major Objectives
·
To
extend counseling support services to promote mental health and child
protection
Activities and Implementation plan of
the project
Conduct
Baseline Study of a Particular Bede Community with a view to Exploring the
areas of Queries;
1.
Availability,
usage and maintenance of sanitary latrines
2.
Knowledge
and practises of hygiene and health
3.
Health
seeking behaviors within the community
4.
Seek citizenship and legal rights outside the community norms
and practices
5.
The ratio and causes of child marriage
6.
Voter and Birth Registration ratio
7.
Livelihood Strategies and impediments
8.
The ratio of mother and child mortality rate
Raise Awareness on Voter Birth
Registration of the Nomadic Bedes
It
is reported that the rate of voter and birth registration in the Bede community
is very low. Almost all the Bedes’ still could not enlist themselves in the
voter list since they do have inadequate knowledge about the significance of
voter and birth registration. This has inhibited their access to even basic
citizenship rights, not to mention their constitutional privileges as the
socially underprivileged. Thus, their difficulties in finding shelter, security
and livelihood have been compounded by their maladjustment with sedentary
society as well as it undermines the processes of their collective action for
articulating the claim for rights and citizenship. After all, it leads to the
social exclusion of the Bedes’ that manifests itself as a lack of access to
resources, opportunities of substitute livelihood, power and upward mobility.
It also escalates their economic and social deprivation. In order to pursue
them for Voter and Birth registration XYZ will arrange 3 awareness sessions
occasionally for raising awareness
among the members of the Bede community about the significance of Voter and
Birth registration and elaborate discussion on the procedures of it. The
organization will distribute leaflet-poster-sticker-festoon
in order to disseminate information about the significance of
voter and birth registration.
The main objective of the awareness sessions is to make them realize that in
order to access to state entitlements requires formal state recognition in the
form of national identity card and birth registration certificate.
Mobile Birth Registration Center
Mobile
Birth Registration Unit: XYZ will build a Mobile Birth Registration Unit to
work with government program to promote birth registration of the nomadic Bede
children and adults. XYZ will arrange 2 laptops, internet connection, printing
facilities, laminating facilities etc. XYZ will reimburse the partial cost as
fees to government and materials costs.
Mobile
Voter Registration Center
Mobile Voter
Registration Unit: XYZ will build a Mobile Voter Registration Unit to work with
government program to promote birth registration of the nomadic Bede children
and adults. It is reported that the rate of birth registration in Bede
community is very low. XYZ will arrange 2 laptops, internet connection,
printing facilities, laminating facilities etc. XYZ will reimburse the partial
cost as fees to government and materials costs.
Mobile School in Boats and Tents
Nomadic
Bede children are traveling with their parents for 10 months in a year so they
are getting deprived to have access to government primary schools. In each
nomadic Bede group there are 15-40 children. One nomadic Bede group change
almost 100 spots in a year and travel across 5-20 districts during this time.
In Bangladesh there are around 10,000 nomadic Bede groups roaming throughout
the country and no group stay more than 3-5 days in one spot. So our plan is to
create an education opportunity for these traveler Bede children and to serve
the education needs of this nomadic community. Through our research it is now
proven that if a boat of a nomadic Bede group is given a black board, pocket
board, chalks, duster, pencils, alphabet cards, cards showing words with
pictures, mat, lamp, toys and ECCD materials under the supervision of a teacher
then that teacher will be able to teach those nomadic Bede children.
Now we are proposing to DPE to support 5
mobile schools’ activities for one year. Under this mobile ECCD and school
program 5 teachers will be selected from 5 nomadic Bede groups. This is a
learning that prior to launching a mobile ECCD and school program for the
nomadic Bede community it would be better to organize a teachers’ training
course. Prior to launching the education program for the nomadic Bede community
a 7-days’ a teachers’ training will be organized. It should be mentioned here
that it is very difficult to find an educated person in a nomadic Bede group
who is capable of teaching. So teachers’ training is inevitable. Moreover,
there must be one day’s refreshers’ courses in every 3 month. Teacher of these
schools will teach their students from 6 a.m. – 10 a.m. for six days in a week.
Apart from teaching the teachers will arrange meeting of the parents of the
students once in a week to discuss about the needs, activities, achievements
and challenges of the students of the mobiles schools. In each mobile school
there will be 4 classes i.e. Early childhood development centre-cum-pre school,
class I, class II, class III. One teacher will be responsible to teach the students
of these four classes. It should be mentioned here that the senior students
will also help the junior students in learning to help their teacher.
In every week each of the mobile school teachers will inform the
location of the mobile school over telephone to the project implementation team
so that the mobile school supervisor can visit the mobile schools. Thus a
mobile school teacher will make mobile phone calls for 52 times in a year to
inform their locations. After knowing the locations and traveling routes of the
mobile schools the mobile school supervisors will plan their monitoring and
supervision plan. A mobile school supervisor will stay with each of the mobile
schools for five days in each month to help the teacher to teach the children
as well as teach the teachers. Through this initiative the quality of teacher
and quality of teaching environment will improve.
During traveling period in different places the teachers will
advise the other Bede groups to introduce similar schooling facilities for the
Bede children and will demonstrate the facilities and procedure of mobile ECCD
centre-cum-school operation. During project period the model can be shown to
government education and social welfare department, national and international
NGOs and UN agencies so that they can replicate it if they would like to
replicate it with their initiative.
The core team members of the project will monitor on the students
who will leave the mobile boat schools and enroll in the government primary
schools so that they can resist the drop-out process.
Advocacy
Liaison with the government
primary schools to help continue the education of the Bede students through
reintegration of those Bede students who studied in mobile schools
After
10 months’ journey each of the Bede nomadic groups will again come to a
specific place to stay for 2 months to observe their social gathering. During
that period the project personal will again arrange meetings with the education
stakeholders of a upazila and Bede community so that the progress of the mobile
ECCD centres and schools can be monitored. Moreover, the project will also
facilitate those students who wants to continue their education staying at
their relative’s house after passing class II or class III from the mobile
schools. Thus the reintegration process will help continue the education of the
Bede children
Adolescent Advocacy Group to Counter
Incidences of Child Marriage
Gender
relationships in the Bede community are too complex to be articulated by a
simple equation of status. The popular discourse about women in the Bede
community is as subjugated and exploited beings who are forced for early
marriages, often raped and get married by the rapist, overloaded with work and
enslaved by husbands who are hardly engaged in any productive activities all
day long and economically dependent on the Bedenis’ (wives and daughters). XYZ
will recruit a number of adolescent volunteers from within the Bede community
and facilitate training on the harmful concepts and impacts of conventional
gender norms and practices and child marriage, pre-mature pregnancy and make
them conscious and confident through empowering them so that in future they can
reinforce their ideas within the community with a view to preventing child
marriage and minimize the prevailing conventional gender norms and practices.
In the long run the adolescents group will
· expedite
efforts to prevent child marriage;
· support
girls who will or have been married;
· support
girls at risk of child marriage;
· defend
the rights of girls to health and the opportunity to fulfil their potential;
and
· deconstruct
the prevailing gender discourse within the community
Conduct Sessions by a Community Health
Worker about Health and Hygiene Issues and
Practices
It
is apparent that knowledge, practices about health and hygiene of nomadic Bede
community is usually meagre, and the range of diseases and mortality rate is
prevalent among the members of the Bede community. They are dependent of using
herbs, vegetables, animal’s and mineral substances and certain other methods
for their health related complicacies. Traditional practices equated with
ignorance or backwardness are usually indicated as the main cause of diverse
diseases amongst the Bedes’ .Thus, the health seeking process and the causes of death of this community is
extensively frustrating than any other socially excluded and deprived ethnic
groups in Bangladesh. In order to equip
them with adequate knowledge about health and hygiene practices and promote health
seeking behaviors , XYZ will arrange 3 awareness sessions, 2 programs, and will extend 10 consecutive
days’ trainings with both the male and
female members of the community on safe
motherhood including danger signs of pregnancy, importance of postnatal care
for both mother and child, disability care, menstrual regulations, and the use
of contraceptive and emergency contraceptive pills, long-acting family planning
methods, HIV/AIDS and other STIs, identification of STI symptoms, health and
hygiene information and practices in more efficient and comprehensive manners.
Group Counseling on Child Marriage
Issues
The prevalence of child marriage is higher in the nomadic Bede community which
escalates early pregnancy, lack of access to family planning, and health
problems domestic abuse and violence including rape. A large number of Bede
girls are getting pregnant by the age of 14 and putting themselves at risk of
death and injury due to early pregnancy. Hereditary customs and traditions are
the pivotal causes of child marriage in the Bede community. As almost all the
members of the Bede community are ignorant, illiterate, and underprivileged,
age old traditions and customs are not easy to do away with. With the aim of
eradicating child marriage within the Bede community XYZ
will organize weekly group counseling with the parents on the demerits of child marriage.
Training on Prevention of Child
Marriage to Religious and Community Leader, and Qazi (Marriage Registrar)
Religious leaders ,
community chief (Headman/Sardar) and Qazi are considered as influential figures
in the Bede community, so XYZ will facilitate one months’ training
and will subsequent follow-up of religious leaders , community chief
(Headman/Sardar) and Qazi about the causes, harmful impacts, rules and laws
of early marriage, importance of birth ,
voter , and marriage registration , basic health and hygiene education and
practice, promoting heath seeking behavior, citizenship, health , and legal rights. It is also anticipated that
their combined endeavor will to help dispel misinformation, engage community
and promote the protection of children, adolescents, and women from violence,
discrimination, stigma, and deteriorating mental health through disseminating
meaningful, comprehensive, and positive messages among the members of the Bede community .
Celebrate the Birth of a Daughter
Child in order to Come out from the Traditional Gender Roles
XYZ
will design this
unique activity to establish a positive attitude towards girls among the
members of the Bede community. Usually, all the families or parents who are
driven by the traditional gender concept or are dissatisfied with the arrival
of the girl child will be selected from the community to celebrate the
birth-reception. A positive attitude towards the girl child will prevail within
the family of the Bede community through the birth reception of the girl child.
Awareness is created among the families of the Bede community through
discussion sessions in order to lessen discriminatory behavior between boys and
girls, increase the importance of child birth registration, break out of gender
based stereotypes and evaluate the girl child. Moreover, XYZ will proffer gifts
for girls (usually towels, photo frames, baby toys, mosquito nets, baby food,
etc.) as well as will extend advices to ensure that the child is vaccinated,
getting nutritious food as much as possible, and ensure their birth
registration.
Introduce National Justice System and
Legal Practices along with their customary law (Sardar’s Laws)
The Bede community exercises their jurisdictional functions in
accordance with their own laws and procedures. They are still dependent on the
hereditary justice system of the community since they don’t have adequate
knowledge about national justice system and legal practices or they
intentionally negate to take assistance from the national justice system. With
a view to enhancing access to justice and promoting human rights of the Bede community,
XYZ will hire a lawyer/legist in order to conduct a number of
sessions for
introducing national justice system to counter adverse legal practices
(rape, property rights, murder, and so on) by the Bede Community . The main
objectives of these sessions will be
· to
raise consciousness about their rights and entitlements.
·
to organize them for articulating and
better asserting their rights
·
to promote justice seeking behavior for countering adverse legal practices
·
to
facilitate access to and use of the formal and state-based justice system by
reducing barriers to entry
Construction
of Portable and
Nomadic Life Friendly Sanitary Latrines and Promoting User of these Portable
Environment Friendly Latrines
The Bede community roams about from place to
place aimlessly, recurrently, or without a fixed pattern of movement, which
raises the unhealthy sanitation predicament.
They are unable to build fix and sustain sanitation system due to
poverty and inadequate knowledge. They are habituated to open defecation and
urination, which is not only responsible for polluting the environment but also leads to diverse health
complications. In order to mitigate the
problem, XYZ will construct 5 portable and nomadic life friendly sanitary latrines with community engagement in the construction process,
so that the Bedes’ can later construct the portable and nomadic life friendly sanitary latrines
without any assistance from any organization. XYZ will implement behavior change strategy called
Community-Led Total Sanitation, which is going to be designed to encourage
communities to stop the practice of open defecation.
Promoting Access to Mental Health
Services
The Bedes’ are socially and
economically marginalized group tend to have higher rates of mental disorders
due to their vulnerable condition. It is apparent that the Bedes’ suffer from
the stress and other situations that result from outright discriminatory
practices and the experience of being labelled as the other or deviant
significantly impacts upon their resilience and wellbeing. After all, the major
factors that responsible for poor mental health are unfulfilled needs and
poverty. Most of the members of the Bede
community have the discernment that mental problems could be due to medical
ailment or spiritual disease. Thus, considering their lack of awareness, their
unfulfilled basic needs, and the rejection they faced from society, it can be
inferred that this might be their escape to evade the stressful conditions of
mental health problems; hence, they attribute such problems to witchcraft and
magic. Moreover, the children are often victimized and abused within and
outside community which leads to short and long term mental trauma and illness. XYZ will extend mental health, psychosocial
support service, and child protection provisions by a hired psychologist. The organization will facilitate one counseling
session per week by an expert psychiatrist on mental health and child protection
and will go for therapeutic intervention to the
victims (children, adolescents, women, and their families) of interpersonal
violence, abuse and neglect.
Cultural, Religious and Recreational
Activities on Multifarious Social Issues and Problems
XYZ
will organize
religious, cultural and recreational activities like organizing sermons by
religious personnel, displaying drama, awareness video display, campaign
through leaflet-poster-sticker-festoon on access to affordable and scientific health
service sources and practice, harmful impact of
child marriage, gender equality, disability inclusion, legal and citizenship
rights within and outside the community, and so on.
Livelihood Skill Training (Culturally
Acceptable to Bedenis)
The Bede community belongs
to the poverty line since their income source diverges from time to time as
well as place to place after all, their income sources are indeterminate. They
are having below average income. They have no other sources of income other
than hereditary or traditional customs. Now a days so
many Bedenis’ are seen begging in the bus stands and busy streets of different
district towns including Dhaka city. In order to make
them economically and socially empowered and support them in attaining improved
living conditions through access to the world of work and contributing to
sustainable and increased family income, XYZ will introduce a number of
trainings and business ideas with the members of the Bede community like ;
· will
provide training of marketing products like dresses, cosmetics, and jewelries’
· will
provide training on making different handicraft items by professionals
· will
provide sewing training to the Bedenis’ by a recruited woman tailor
· may
introduce commercial mobile snake farming and will extend training by an expert
of snake farming until they are adept with the skills of these works.
Introduce National Emergency Service
numbers
XYZ
will introduce emergency service numbers through disseminating leaflets in a
session like 109 for multi sectoral referral and psychosocial support, 999 for
immediate services to police and hospitals, 333 for immediate reports/help for
any social problems from enquiring after COVID 19 to child marriage and sexual
harassment cases, and 10921 for immediate service to victims and links up to
relevant agencies: doctors, counselors, lawyers, DNA experts, police officers ,
1098 to facilitate reporting abuse, child rights
violation or any other kind of incident disrupting the protection of children.
Distribution
of Hygiene Materials to Subvert Unhygienic Practices
As the Bedes’ are financially vulnerable which leads
to unhygienic practices especially the women and adolescent girls’ are the most
vulnerable to this during menopause .Poverty is so intense and hygiene
knowledge is so inadequate in the Bede community that women can’t afford to buy
sanitary products. This
unhygienic alternative can cause infections, leading to a greater risk of
complications in childbirth, and even cancer. Women are further vulnerable to infertility when their
menstrual hygiene practices are unhygienic, for example, not changing their
sanitary towels frequently, lack of adequate cleaning of reusable products, and
the use of unclean water for cleaning both their bodies and their sanitary
towels.XYZ will
facilitate 2 exclusive sessions with the women and adolescent girls’
on health and hygiene menopause practices as well as distribute sanitary napkins occasionally in order to bring change
unhygienic practice among them during menopause.
Geographic Location: Working Area of the Proposed Project
The project activities will be implemented at
10 areas where Bedes gather occasionally e.g. Louhajanj (Munshiganj), Srinagar
(Munshiganj), Barisal (Gournadi, Torki, Takerhat, Sikarpur, Ujirpur)
Jhalokati’s Sutalori village, Galachipa (Patuakhali), Madaripur (Kalkini),
Chandpur (Kachua, Eliotganj and Matlab), Singra, Sunamgonj and Chatak.
Management of the Project
A Project Management Unit (PMU) will be formed
under the direct supervisor of the Executive Committee of XYZ. The PMU will
periodically report to the Executive Committee on the progress of the project.
The Project Management Unit (PMU) will work under the leadership of Executive
Director and General Secretary of XYZ and the Assistant Program Officer will
work as member secretary of that unit. All the project staff will be members of
the PMU. The members o the PMU will sit once or more in a week to plan,
implement, supervise, monitor and evaluate the project activities. Since the
project will follow the participatory approach in plan, implement, supervise,
monitor and evaluate the project so before initiating an activity the members
of the PMU will ensure participation of the primary and other stakeholders in
decision making.
Brief Description of the Project Key Staff
Members of the Project Management Unit (PMU)
will be the project key staff. The Executive Director, one Assistant Program
Officer, one Accounts-cum-Program Assistant, 3 mobile school supervisors and 10
mobile ECCD centre-cum-school teachers will be the project staff.
Frequency and Methods for Supervision/Monitoring of the Project
The
project key staff along with the stakeholders will prepare a participatory
monitoring report at the end of each quarter. Different methods and tools will
be used to monitor the project e.g. stakeholders’ workshop, Participatory Rural
Appraisal, case study, survey, Focus Group Discussion, observation, photographs
etc.
Project beneficiaries
(e.g.
The adult members of the Bede Community, adolescents,working children, children
with disabilities, children with special needs):
Target Beneficiaries/Stakeholders
Primary stakeholders
Adult
members of the Bede Community, adolescent’s children of the nomadic Bede
community are the primary target group/partner of these project activities.
Secondary
stakeholders
Adolescents
and adults of nomadic Bede community, Neighboring Bengali community, XYZ
Unnayan Community (GUC), Upazila level Govt. Departments, NGOs, primary
schools, Union Health Centers, Union Parisad, media, civil society, UN
Agencies, Govt. policy planners and Law makers are mentioned as secondary
stakeholders.
Project Output
·
Number
of registration of child births increased by 50 percent by the end of 2024
·
Increased
the number of Birth, Voter, and Marriage Registration within the community by 60 percent by the end
of 2024
·
Number
of incidences of child marriage decreased
by 60 percent within the community by the end of 2024
·
Increased improved behavioral
change with particular regard to decisions about early and unprotected sex,
STDs and HIV/AIDS prevention and management and the use family planning
services as well as male involvement in the demand and utilization family
planning services, which will enhance skills and capacity on preventive health
care measures by 70 percent
within the community by the end of 2024
· 60 percent of the Bedes sought primary health care services from Community Clinics, Union Health and Family Welfare Centres and Upazila Health Complexes, Urban Primary Health Care Service Delivery Project’s (UPHCSDP) clinics
· 5 percent of the poor Bedes received red health cards from UPHCSDP to be eligible free medicine and advices
·
Increased the
incidences of psychosocial
wellbeing and resilience of children, adolescents, and women will within the
community by 40 percent by the end of 2024
·
Decreased the treatment expenditure will be
reduced by 40 percent by the end
of 2024
Project outcomes
(Anticipated
outcomes as a result funding this project):
- Literacy rate increased among Bedes
- Number of Bede students increased in the local government
primary schools
- Number of Bede children continued their education in the
government primary school after completion of the schooling in mobile
school.
·
Mitigated
environmental pollution
·
Supported
businesses agreeing high quality and gendered business plans/screening products
etc.
Means of verifications
·
Results
of assessment, questionnaires, monitoring and evaluation
·
Number of volunteers will be hired and
trained from the community to support and prevent
child marriage within the community
·
Percentage
of adolescent/early pregnancies
·
Percentage of mother and child mortality rate within the community
·
Percentage of community members will
attend in the cultural, religious and recreational activities on multifarious
social issues and problems
Risk and Assumptions
·
National political stability
- Willingness of the community and
the stakeholders to participate in the implementation of the project.
- Bede community recognizes that health and hygiene is a key
priority for them and they understand the benefits this would bring
·
The stakeholders cooperate fully in
the realization of the project
·
The baseline survey is carried out
appropriately and fully to identify the needs correctly
·
The database is comprehensive
·
Sufficient resources are available to
carry out regular monitoring exercises
·
Hygiene messages will be correctly
identified
·
Groups willing to support the right of
women and girls to safety from exploitation and abuse
·
Community accepts the benefit of
addressing women’s vulnerability and involving women community development
work.
·
Community respond well to the process
·
Construction of portable improved
sanitation may be problematic in the Bede community in river basins
·
Issues in communities (poverty,
chieftaincy conflict, planting seasons) may lead to delays in communities
empowering themselves to initiate and manage their hygiene and health issues
·
Trained local influential will remain in targeted areas and apply their
knowledge
·
Traditional and local leadership will
accept SRHR activities.
·
Bede children’s’ willingness to attend
in the mobile school
·
Parents’ willingness to send their
children to the mobile schools
·
Health Service managers aware of their
obligations in relation to girls rights and health and hygiene issues
·
Adolescents will not be involved in
programme planning and implementation in a systematic manner
·
Project is part of coordinated
sustainable economic empowerment programme
- Enhance men’s awareness of and support for their partners’ reproductive health
- Understanding gender and gender programming: a precursor to engaging men
- Building staff and organizational capacity
- Monitoring
and evaluating the programme
|
Item |
Unit |
Number |
Rate |
Amount |
|
1. Management Cost |
|
|
|
|
|
2. Salary of Project Director/Executive
Director of GUC |
Month |
24 |
20000 |
576000 |
|
3. Salary of Accounts-cum-Program Assistant |
Month |
24 |
15000 |
360000 |
|
4. Conduct Baseline Study
|
Month |
1 |
|
|
|
4.1 Allowances |
|
|
5000 |
5000 |
|
4.2 Equipment |
|
|
5000 |
5000 |
|
4.3 Transport |
|
|
5000 |
5000 |
|
4.4 Stationery |
|
|
5000 |
5000 |
|
4.5 Others |
|
|
5000 |
5000 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total: 961000 |
5. Mobile School
|
|
|
|
|
|
5.1 Salary
of Teachers
|
Month Number |
24 |
15000 |
1800000 |
|
5.2
Salary of Mobile School Supervisors |
Number
Month |
5 |
12000 |
1440000 |
|
5.3 Rent
for space in boats for mobile ECCD centre-cum-mobile schools
|
Numbers
Months |
5
24 |
2000 |
24000 |
|
5.4 Mobile
phone call charges by the mobile school teachers |
Times |
10 |
5000 |
50000 |
|
5.5 Cost of
teachers’ Training (rent for dormitory, food etc.)
|
Days |
10 |
20000 |
20000 |
|
5.6 Educational
materials (book, paper, pen, black
board) |
Month |
24 |
10000 |
240000 |
|
5.7 Training
Materials for Teachers’ Training (Board, marker, paper, etc.) |
Month |
24 |
5000 |
120000 |
|
5.8 ECCD
materials (black board, pocket board,
chalk, duster, rhyme books, pictures,
toys, playing materials |
Times |
24 |
10000 |
240000 |
6. Arrange awareness sessions,
trainings, programs, and counseling
|
Number |
2 |
20000 |
40000 |
|
6.1 Awareness
Sessions on Voter and Birth Registration |
Number |
2 |
20000 |
40000 |
|
6.2 Awareness
sessions and programs by a Community Health about Health and Hygiene Issues
and Practices |
Number |
4 |
15000 |
60000 |
|
7. Group Counseling on the Prevention of
Child Marriage
|
Number |
4 |
10000 |
40000 |
|
8. Mobile Birth and Voter Registration
Center |
Month/Number |
12 |
|
|
|
8.1 Laptops |
Number |
2 |
40000 |
80000 |
|
8.2 Internet
Connection |
Month |
6 |
5000 |
30000 |
|
8.3 Allowance
to the recruited registrar
|
Number |
2 |
10000 |
120000 |
|
9. Training
|
Centers/Month |
|
|
|
|
9.1 Training
Centers |
Number |
2 |
50000 |
100000 |
|
9.2 Forming
and Provide Training to the Adolescent
Advocacy Group to Counter Incidences of Child Marriage
|
Number |
2 |
20000 |
40000 |
|
9.3 Training
Materials
|
|
|
20000 |
20000 |
|
9.4 Food
cost |
|
|
|
|
|
9.5 Equipment |
|
|
10000 |
10000 |
|
9.6 Facilitator's
Allowance
|
Number |
2 |
20000 |
20000 |
|
9.7 Training
on Prevention of Child Marriage to
Religious and Community Leader, and Qazi (Marriage Registrar)
|
Number |
4 |
20000 |
80000 |
|
9.8 Training
Materials |
|
|
20000 |
20000 |
|
9.9 Food
cost |
|
|
10000 |
10000 |
|
9.10 Equipment |
|
|
10000 |
10000 |
|
9.11 Facilitator's
Allowance |
|
|
20000 |
|
|
10. Livelihood Skill Training (24 Sessions)
|
Month |
|
|
|
|
10.1 Training
Materials |
|
|
20000 |
20000 |
|
10.2 Food
cost |
|
|
10000 |
10000 |
|
10.3 Equipment |
|
|
15000 |
15000 |
|
10.4
Trainers Allowance
|
Number/ Month |
2 |
20000 |
480000 |
|
11. Distribution of Sanitary Napkins |
Packet |
500 |
200 |
100000 |
|
12. Cultural, Religious and Recreational
Activities on Multifarious Social Issues and Problems |
5 |
|
|
|
|
12.1 Arrangement
Cost
|
|
|
10000 |
50000 |
|
12.2 Hired
performers Cost |
|
|
20000 |
100000 |
|
12.3 Venue
Arrangement cost
|
|
|
20000 |
100000 |
|
13. Session on Introducing Legal System |
Number |
2 |
|
|
|
13.1 Lawyer's
Allowance
|
|
2 |
25000 |
50000 |
|
13.2 Materials
Cost
|
|
|
20000 |
20000 |
|
14. Construction of 5 Portable and Nomadic
Life Friendly Sanitary Latrines
|
Number |
5 |
100000 |
100000 |
|
15. Monthly Progress Meeting |
Number |
24 |
20000 |
480000 |
|
Total 7140000
|
||||
(Taka Seventy One Lakh Forty Thousand
Only)
Existing Resources Available
(State briefly
the experience, and provide proof, of the applicant(s) of implementing similar
projects and resources available, personnel, office, equipments etc. to
successfully carry out this project.)
Relevant
documents are attached herewith to describe the existing resources e.g.
experiences of implementing similar projects, resources available, personnel,
office, equipment etc.:
Annex-1. Organizational Profile
Annex-2. Executive Summaries of the previous Exploratory
and Action Research Projects on
Bede community conducted XYZ.
Annex-3. Newspaper Reports on the innovative mobile
school model of XYZ Unnayan
Committee
Address
XYZ, House #
12 (1st Floor), Road # 6, PC Culture Housing Society, Shekhertek,
Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh. Tel. 9114094, 01715-020055, email: XYZ@yahoo.com,
web: www.XYZbd.org
Date
of establishment
The
organization was established on March 05, 1993
Legitimacy of the organization in terms of
legal, constituency and constitution
XYZ
(GUC) was registered under the Department of Social Service, Ministry of Social
Welfare. GUC also have NGO Affairs
Bureau Registration from the Prime Minister’s Office of the Government of the
People’s Republic of Bangladesh under the foreign donation regulation
ordinance, 1978.
The
35 members of the general body of XYZ are the constituency of this
organization. These 35 members elect the 7 members of executive body. The
executive body develops policy, appoints staff and approves all decisions for
the organization. The general body of XYZ develop and approve the constitution
of the organization and amend it when necessary.
Main contact person of the organization and her/his address
Mr. A.K.M. Maksud, Executive Director of XYZ is the main contact person
of the organization. His address is as below:
Address
XYZ,
House # 12 (1st Floor), Road # 6, PC Culture Housing Society,
Shekhertek, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207. Tel. 9114094, 01715-020055, email: XYZ@yahoo.com
Goal and objectives of the organization
Goals of XYZ is as follows:
·
Establishment of socially excluded,
poor and marginalized people’s rights
·
Advancement of women’s rights for
gender equality
·
Development of a socially inclusive
culture where diversity is celebrated, equal
Citizenship exercised, and non-discrimination
is actively practiced
·
Strengthening of people’s movements
for social and economic justice
The
objectives of XYZ are as follows:
To
promote active processes for inclusion of the socially excluded and stigmatized
communities (e.g. nomadic Bede, sweepers, Charmaker, Dom, Bagdi, Kawra, Kahar
etc.), poor and marginalized.
1. To
promote the right to “quality education” for the socially excluded, poor and
marginalized children.
2. To
promote the right to quality health care for the socially excluded and
stigmatized communities, poor and marginalized.
3. To
promote public accountability of government, private sector and international
development agencies that secures economic justice for all.
4.
To facilitate an enabling environment
where socially excluded and stigmatized people, poor and marginalized are able
to exercise their right
5. To
increase access and control over natural resources and public services by the
poor and marginalized.
6. To
promote woman’s right to create an enabling environment for her effective
participation in social, political, economic and environmental dimensions.
7. To
create an enabling environment for practice of gender equity based
relations.
8. To
promote a culture for zero tolerance for violence against women.
9. To
promote an inclusive and barrier free society where enabling environment and
conditions prevail for the persons with disabilities.
Executive Summaries of the previous Exploratory and Action
Research Projects on Bede community conducted XYZ.
Research
Study/Action Research Project Title:
1.
Participatory Action Research for
Human Development of the Nomadic Bede Community, supported by Research
Initiative Bangladesh/Royal Netherlands Government
2.
Action Research for Human Development
of the Beday (River Gypsy) Community in Bangladesh, supported by Research
Initiative Bangladesh/Royal Netherlands Government
3.
Prospects of Possible Interventions
and Potentials for Sustainable Development in Beday Community, supported by
Grameen Trust/Grameen Bank
posted by Ainul Momen Rafat @ December 30, 2021
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